Conservatives scored their first victory against the Biden administration when former Center for American Progress (CAP) President Neera Tanden’s nomination to direct the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was blocked. George Soros and his Open Society Institute is a primary funder of CAP. Tanden declared twitter war on Republicans and progressives over the past
Political News
(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Nicholas Kristof is scandalized by the shortage of public toilets in New York City. It is, indeed a problem. (I stand by my description of Starbucks as a chain of public toilets with a sideline in coffee.) But he leaves out a big part of the story. New York used to provide public
The death of legendary conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh as a result of advanced stage lung cancer is one of the most tragic stories of the year. There’s no denying his massive impact on broadcasting history. Shortly after his death, former vice president Mike Pence honored him on Fox News Channel as the “anchor
Sources tell The Hill that Donald Trump’s attorneys have sent cease-and-desist letters Friday to the Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) to stop using his name and image for fundraising. The three groups are the largest fundraising groups in the Republican Party. From Trump’s
This is a big deal if he means it, but it’s unclear if he means it. Watch the clip below, noting that Chuck Todd asks him specifically about using reconciliation to pass “election-only bills like H.R. 1.” That’s the “For the People Act,” Democrats’ massive voting-rights reform bill, their absolute top legislative priority before the
On Saturday, the internet was set ablaze with the discussion surrounding an article from The New York Times about a cartoon character named Pepe Le Pew. The author talks about the recent statements that Dr. Seuss books were racist and how many cartoons normalized racism and bias. For Pepe Le Pew, he said the skunk
This passage in a Washington Post article on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus jumped off the page: Dave Hopkins, a professor of political science at Boston College who studies the Democratic Party, said the Republican base is no longer “stoked” by criticisms of overspending. “Moderate vulnerable Democrats feel a lot more freedom to vote for
Former RNC chairman Michael Steele joined The 11th Hour host Brian Williams on MSNBC’s Friday night coverage of the Senate’s COVID relief bill vote-a-rama. Sounding more like a progressive activist than a former Republican chairman, Steele condemned Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema for her “childish” and “insulting” vote against raising the minimum wage. Williams introduced Sinema’s viral thumbs down
A bill approved by a Kentucky Senate committee would make it a crime to insult or taunt police officers if it would “provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person.” The bill is a response to riots last summer that saw activists “getting up in officers’ faces, yelling in their
Greyhound’s President and CEO David Leach wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He told the secretary that when the Department of Homeland Security goes to put an illegal migrant on a Greyhound bus, he expects the agency to have proof of a COVID-19 negative test result. The letter was a request for assistance from
A reader sent me a link to the United Way’s 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge and while reading through “equity journey”, “How White Parents Can Talk to the Kids About Race”, “Racial Equity Unwrapped” and “White Privilege” I realized something. Besides the silliness of it all, the “daily effects of white privilege” could be applied to
If I commented on every interesting part of this interview that Eric Levitz conducted for New York magazine with socialist data scientist David Shor, I’d end up recapitulating the whole thing. Shor has a lot to say that strikes me as plainly correct. But he also develops one line of thought that strikes me as
Well, well, well. Talk about a coverup. Recall this story, as headlined in BizPacReview? Pelosi appoints Swalwell to Homeland Security Committee again, despite recent Chinese spy scandal The story begins thusly, with bold print supplied for emphasis: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reappointed her California Democratic colleague, Rep. Eric Swalwell, to the Homeland Security Committee despite revelations
Pope Francis went to Iraq today and met with Iraq’s principal Shi’ite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and, according to the Associated Press, “delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence Saturday, urging Muslims in the war-weary Arab nation to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority during an historic meeting in the holy city of Najaf.” That’s
Last June, in the wake of the nationwide protests and riots over the death of George Floyd, Portland’s Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty pushed a plan that cut $7 million from the Portland Police Budget and got rid of a group of officers called the Gun Violence Reduction Team. Hardesty, who had
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his top lieutenants cited a report altered by his top aides to make it seem like they were handling the COVID-19 outbreak in nursing homes better than other states. A New York State Department of Health report published in early July disclosed 6,432 COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes, despite
Detail of the St. Catherine de Ricci window at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Conn., prior to the recent vandalism. (Photo: Kathryn Jean Lopez) One of my favorite churches in the United States is St. Mary’s in New Haven, Conn. It’s basically on the campus of Yale University, inasmuch as Yale buildings surround it.
Brian Williams appears to be one of those people who doesn’t listen to himself when he talks. How else to describe the reasons behind why the truth-challenged journalist says the things he does? Yes, it’s time for another NewsBusters FLASHBACK: It was eight years ago this week that Williams appeared on Alec Baldwin’s then radio
The Senate has passed a coronavirus relief bill that will cost $1.9 billion. The party-line vote was 50-49. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska had to rush home to attend the funeral of his father-in-law. His absence meant that Vice President Kamala Harris did not have to cast her tie-breaking vote as president pro tempore.
After what’s being described as a 26-hour “marathon” session, the Senate managed to drag the massive, nearly two trillion dollar COVID relief bill across the finish line. That fact that huge parts of it had little or nothing to do with pandemic relief didn’t appear to bother the Democrats in the upper chamber one bit.
Recently released data about jobs, retail sales, and industrial production indicate that not only is more stimulus not needed but any more stimulus will be counterproductive and will cause more severe problems in the future. That’s probably not enough to stop Congress from passing another multi-trillion-dollar package. When the steep but very short-lived recession in March
(jacoblund/Getty Images) As I have warned here before, euthanasia activists are pushing for laws that permit people to write advance directives ordering themselves starved to death if they become mentally incapacitated. That effort is apparently gaining steam. The assisted suicide supporting organization Final Exit Network published a poll that supposedly found only 15 percent of
On Friday, CNN’s Brianna Keilar and her Republican-loathing colleague, Brian Stelter, took turns bashing their competitor, Fox News Channel, for the crime of allowing the expression of conservative thought. Abandoning even the pretense of being objective journalists, the two left-wing hosts condemned Fox executives and hosts for actually pledging to practice adversarial journalism and hold the new administration
This is music to my ears: Erik Ortiz, a 41-year-old hip-hop music producer in Florida, grew up poor in the South Bronx, and spent much of his time as a young adult trying to establish himself financially. Now he considers himself rich. And he believes shaking off the politics of his youth had something to
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and her husband own a financial stake in WeChat parent company Tencent Holdings through an exchange-traded fund, even as the Commerce Department reviews a ban of the Chinese tech giant. Raimondo and her husband Andrew Moffit own a stake worth between $21,500 and $44,500 in Tencent Holdings, according to a
1. Wall Street Journal: Cuomo Advisers Altered Report on Covid-19 Nursing-Home Deaths The changes Mr. Cuomo’s aides and health officials made to the nursing-home report, which haven’t been previously disclosed, reveal that the state possessed a fuller accounting of out-of-facility nursing-home deaths as early as the summer. The Health Department resisted calls by state and
Few in today’s polarized world equally stigmatize two Democratic and two Republican administrations, but the dishonors are about equal. Here are my tributes. The Clinton regime was one of a series produced by the demise of national conventions of state officeholders and the ascendancy of primaries. The nominees of the new dispensation possessed ambitions for
Problematic pile ons have become such a popular pastime that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is joining the fray by highlighting offensive content in its own movies. As The Wrap reported on Wednesday, TCM “aims to shed modern light on the history and shortcomings of 14 different classic Hollywood films” in vignettes airing on Thursday nights
A judge has ordered a new runoff election for Ward 1 alderman in Aberdeen, Mississippi, after evidence of fraud and criminal activity. In a 64-page order, Judge Jeff Weill ruled that of the 84 mail-in absentee ballots cast in the June runoff election, 66 of them, or 78 percent, were not valid and should never
On Wednesday, Gov. Cuomo finally reappeared at a press conference after a week long absence. After 20 minutes of talking about COVID, Cuomo made a statement about the sexual harassment allegations against him. He was asked later during a Q&A to whom he was apologizing. Cuomo replied he was directing his comments to the “young